With the US military unveiling its future aircraft, which aircraft are you must excited about ? Anything you hope to see in any of them ?

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Aircraft in order

F-47

B-21

Bell MV-75

E-130J Phoenix II

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Holycroc_RVA@reddit

So the F/A-XX modifying the prior YF-23 basically.....

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Certain parts on the F/A-XX look VERY similar to the YF-23

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troaway1@reddit

Want to get the youth vote? Promise to rename the F47 the F67

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GuitarKittens@reddit

I think it's always been silly that we can't just go in order. It feels like that would be easier on everyone, no?

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Oregon687@reddit

I'd get excited about medicare for all.

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I used to be so into this stuff…Air&Space sub, constantly reading about current and new developments…but yeah, now I’d just like to see something that doesn’t take 10 years to develop and cost $1 billion per unit plus an insane amount of maintenance hours. Maybe it’s just getting old but I’d rather spend on things that make people’s lives actually better than a new plane with 5% more capability than the last one that will most likely never be used in combat, or at least necessary “defending our freedoms” combat, which hasn’t really occurred since WWII.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

I get what you're saying but your enemies aren't going to go to sleep while you cut the defense budget

Hugs are cool but do nothing for your peer advisory who's developing weapons to kill you every day. The US must be prepared

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lueckestman@reddit

Hugs? Bitch we want free chemo.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

So do I , but that doesn't mean I want to cut the defense budget and destroy the United States to get it

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CoastRegular@reddit

Yeah, but how prepared do you need to be? We spend more on national defense than the next TEN countries, combined.

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Practical-Object-827@reddit

That’s a misleading statistic. Corrected for PPP, 2&3 combined match us. We are still too high but that stat is loaded to make it look worse than it is.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

We spend this for a reason, nobody will try us

It keeps me and you safe, aircraft carriers and the best jets in the world isn't cheap

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Saltydecimator@reddit

Where you gonna get this “free”???? I’m not pro mil industry complex but nothing “ is “free”.

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lueckestman@reddit

Probably by taxing billionaires.

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Saltydecimator@reddit

Looollz. How you gonna convince them of that????!

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lueckestman@reddit

Not my job. Just saying it's possible.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

You misinterpreted, hugs do nothing to our enemy the only thing stopping them is force

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GuitarKittens@reddit

I grew up with this kinda stuff. I still play a game called Kerbal Space Program and use it solely to make aircraft.

I will probably leave college with more debt than I could ever repay and fewer job opportunities than ever. Screw the military, I need people to get along so desperately at this point so we can actually work on the important stuff.

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Saltydecimator@reddit

Ya. Global leader Cage match and leave us out of it

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RespectTheTree@reddit

I think that's naive, but I won't argue

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RandomObserver13@reddit

I can accept that. I felt differently 20, 30 years ago. I think it’s gone too far, started with the JSF.

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aqaba_is_over_there@reddit

Go back to pre Regan economics and we can have both.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

I love Medicare also, but it won't be Medicare if our enemies outgun us. Look at Ukraine, your enemy does not care of you become more peaceful over time.

Always be prepared

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SteadfastEnd@reddit

Navy FAXX

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magnumfan89@reddit

I find it kinda funny that there's all these futuristic stealth aircraft, then just a random C130

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Looks can be deceiving, don't let her boring look fool you

Known planned capabilities include nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) hardening and cybersecurity hardening, and an upgrade of the trailing wire communications system fielded on the E-6.[4] This system extends a 5 mi (8.0 km) long wire from the tail of the aircraft to enable VLF communications with submerged submarines

A notable mission change in the transition from the E-6 Mercury to the E-130J is the deletion of the capability to act as the Air Force Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), with the capability to communicate with nuclear bomber fleets and ICBM silos.

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ProjectNo864@reddit

So much .:hardening:.

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aqaba_is_over_there@reddit

I'm curious if at some point things get un-networkrd. Take a page from Battlestar Gallacta.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

You have to nowadays with China, Russia and Iran always trying to hack into everything

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magnumfan89@reddit

Interesting. I was just more talking about the platform itself, the C130 is about 70 years old.

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BreadUntoast@reddit

C-130, B-52, Arleigh-Burke, and M2HB will outlive us all

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

For her mission I guess the platform just works

Congress and Navy must like it enough cause its getting a $3.5 billion check

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gegunner1@reddit

It’ll be interesting to see what Northrop ends up putting into.

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JFlyer81@reddit

My first thought too lol

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aqaba_is_over_there@reddit

Narwal Eagle

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MonkeyKing01@reddit

US Aircraft are kind of "meh" at this point. Far more interested in China's stuff these days.

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tdager@reddit

You mean the US/western allies stolen stuff? Unless you are PLA or a Chinese government shill, there is NOTHING interesting or innovative about Chinese military aviation.

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DuelJ@reddit

Speculation on J-20s doctrinal role is pretty interesting tbh.

I'm holding off on forming opinions on the other Chinese jets tho.

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DuelJ@reddit

Valor and the Redtail.

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MohnJaddenPowers@reddit

Gimme my Aurora already!

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lionelum@reddit

No matter year, no matter nothing always be a variant of a C130..... if is not the perfect plane is very close.

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KosmolineLicker@reddit

The Bell Valor is what I'd love to see more of, as I've already seen it flying during test flights.

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tdager@reddit

Th ones that do not need the meat bag inside of it. 😁

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Aat117@reddit

Have you considered that you lose a lot of style/coolness points when you take the meatbag out of the plane?

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tdager@reddit

LOL fair point!

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

You'll the picture #7 like the guy said above the factory is already rolling for her

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TheVoicesSpeakToMe@reddit

SR-72

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dskivvy@reddit

Most excited for the F/A-XX. I feel like it’s been overshadowed by the f-47 and we don’t know a whole lot about it.

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gamehenge_survivor@reddit

I would like to see competent leadership in control of them.

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CarminSanDiego@reddit

Every new development is and will be plagued with grift. Greed will be our downfall

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Maybe it is greedy but just remember these platforms are the reason you'll be allowed and have the freedom to criticize the US arms industry

It's an oxymoron, the thing you hate will protect your freedom to say it

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Actual_Environment_7@reddit

Airplanes are cool and all, but this is a tone deaf take. US military contracts are so inefficient and corrupt and they have been for a long time. And our rights haven’t faced an external threat for decades. Those threats have been coming from inside lately.

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CarminSanDiego@reddit

Bro I am US arms.

Every single acquisitions program has been riddled with corruption and absurd inefficiencies. I see it first hand. We dump insane amount of money into programs that should’ve been wrote off as sunk cost years ago (ie T7, KC46)

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

You not wrong unfortunately

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Aerocat08@reddit

T-7A Redhawk

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

The new trainer aircraft !

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Aerocat08@reddit

She’s a beauty!

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

All these new planes including the two new fighters the F-47 and the F/A-XX will be ready by 2028-2030

In 3 to 4 years the military is about to look so different this is crazy! I can't wait

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Time_Restaurant5480@reddit

Very initial OC and "fit to be used in emergencies" is not FOC.

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ChaceEdison@reddit

My money is on the B52, I bet it’ll be serving for longer than any plane shown above

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

That's getting upgraded to the B-52J

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TheVengeful148320@reddit

I don't think so. The last I heard they slashed a lot of the program budget for that and basically gutted a lot of it. But these things come and go so we'll see.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

The "B-52J" is a modernization of the B-52 bomber that includes replacing its old engines with new, more fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce F130 engines, upgrading the radar with an ANAPG79 AESA radar, and adding modern digital cockpit displays and communications

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Sixguns1977@reddit

No helicopters?

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1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1@reddit

MV-75 is a tiltrotor. The problem with helicopters is range, they range that they want from a helicopter is nearly impossible, especially within a roughly blackhawk shaped footprint, thus the MV-75.

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Razgriz01@reddit

It's still a bit of a headscratcher for me why they went with this for a blackhawk replacement, it's so much larger. The Sikorsky proposal would have made a lot more sense, it's still roughly blackhawk sized while being significantly faster.

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1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1@reddit

Because the Defiant didn't meet the requirements. Sikorsky/Boeing appealed and lost.

The MV-75 is much wider than the Blackhawk but it's also not as long, which they deemed to be a fair tradeoff considering that it's twice as fast and has more than double the range. The Defiant also had comically large rotors that are a bigger issue than the MV-55's width.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Yeah this is the Sikorsky fault , the MV-75 was the much better choice

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

The Sikorsky went head to head sign the MV-75 (PIC 3) and lost, I guess it had issues that killed it

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Sixguns1977@reddit

I'm more interested in the gunships. AH-1, AH-64, etc.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

There are new helicopters but not for awhile as they are planned after any of the aircraft mentioned above. The Future Vertical Lift like the Bell MV-75 is designed to replace vehicles like the Blackhawk UH-60

The Bell MV-75 is in here but I don't know if that counts as a helicopte

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CARCaptainToastman@reddit

I reject the MV-75. She's the V-280 dammit!

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

MV-75 is shorter and sounds more kickass though 😂

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CARCaptainToastman@reddit

I work for a company that's been making parts for that program before it was even designated the MV-75.

Calling it anything other than the V-280 just feels so wrong to me.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

That's awesome 👌, she's the future. I absolutely can't wait to see her

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Sixguns1977@reddit

I don't think it does. Definitely not what I was looking for.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

It's replacing certain helicopters, I guess the military likes this better. Times might be changing, we getting old

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

The Bell MV-75 is in this post

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pulupulu123@reddit

Thank god the V280 won the FVL program. I love tilt-rotors and the type would probably have died without it.

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Razgriz01@reddit

It makes zero sense to me why they picked it to replace the Blackhawk when the footprint is Chinook sized, if not larger.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

My most excited aircraft on this list next to the F/A-XX and F-47

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hgwelz@reddit

The Chinese J-36 is the most intriguing - tail-less with 3 engines and possibly thrust vectoring.

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ChaceEdison@reddit

It’s weird you’re being downvoted so hard. You said it’s the most intriguing, not the most impressive.

I’m also intrigued and curious to see what development China has come up with. Is it a genuine comparable plane or a Potemkin Village plane

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hgwelz@reddit

Yes, I'm being downvoted for having an opinion that I find the J-36 most intriguing. LOL.

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

When it comes to Russia and China I just don't know, I gotta see more of them in combat. Russia fooled many with its military being lackluster before this war they used to be in every video game as a US rival

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Soft_Language_5987@reddit

Lol. Dumbest shit I’ve read today

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

You no post history and barely any comments, we found out on Twitter a week ago that many of the accounts are from foreign nations pretending to be American

I'm not saying you're a Chinese or Russian bot but obvious to anyone not paid that the Russians underperformed in Ukraine and it's also that the Chinese military is unproven in modern combat

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1ThousandDollarBill@reddit

It has three engines because they aren’t very good at making extremely powerful engines

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Agusfn@reddit

Downvotes because china bad

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stlthy1@reddit

The Arkbird

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Kanyiko@reddit

I'm... not exactly excited by any of them. Is it me, or does everything nowadays look like F-22/YF-23 clones?

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discreetjoe2@reddit

Are you surprised that everyone is copying the best design?

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Kanyiko@reddit

Just massively annoyed. The 'modern' section of my model plane collection is beginning to look boring very quickly at this pace. v_v

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Both are correct, this sucks from what we are used to design wise with everything looking so different BUT from a military standpoint its better to save lives than look cool

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zoomie35@reddit

Maxwells electromagnetic equations is why

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a_scientific_force@reddit

Optimal designs tend to converge towards a single solution. Look at how similar the A350 and 787 are. That's the closest we can currently get to an optimal solution for a twin-aisle twin-engine composite airliner. It's the same story for aircraft built towards any specific combat-related purpose.

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tumanskyr15@reddit

Idk why but i js feel like NGAD's maneuverability is just going to be dih on a stih (not like it matters bc stealth but still)

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ChevTecGroup@reddit

The anduril fury. Just because they are building the factory 30mins away by my old job

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Youngstown_WuTang@reddit (OP)

Picture #7 ! Hell yeah!

It operates ahead of manned jets to detect and "engage threats, reducing risk to human pilots. The prototype, designated YFQ-44A, has a common name "Fury" and completed its first flight in late October 2025. "